Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Jin Er desperately pushed the blame onto Good-For-Nothing. He stressed that there wasn’t a problem with his method of training, but instead there was a problem with the dog itself. Since Good-For-Nothing wasn’t able to speak, it had no other option but to bear the blame.
In short, man was afraid of choosing the wrong dog, while a woman was afraid of marrying the wrong man. It seemed as though Jin Er had chosen the wrong dog.
Snowy said a few good words for him, because she did see Jin Er trying to train his dog several times. But it was unclear if his training method was effective. Regardless, he did work really hard.
Blackie reluctantly accepted his explanation, but still said with a sigh, “Old Jin, because she’s helping you, I’ll let you off today… I’ll remember this, though, and get you back later on.”
Jin Er coughed and said softly, “This… in your WeChat moments, can you help me out by putting in a few good words…?”
Blackie glared at him. “To let you cheat more people?”
“I didn’t mean it like that… I’m just a person who cares about his reputation…” Jin Er said various things and hoped that the Blackie would not expose him in his WeChat Moments.
“Let’s put this aside. What should I do now? I came all the way just for nothing!” Blackie slammed his hand down on the hood of his car, and the sound startled Good-For-Nothing. When Blackie saw Good-For-Nothing jump because of the sound, he was even more disappointed.
“No, no, do you know why I had Snowy stay? It was to help you! So you have to understand my efforts…” Jin Er said as he pointed to Snowy.
When Snowy heard Jin Er bring her into the conversation, she was even more curious. What kind of help could she give?
Blackie also looked at Snowy doubtfully. He thought to himself that the little girl looked soft and weak… She was an expert dog tamer? Or, since she was living in such a luxurious villa area, could it be that her father owned a pet farm, so she knew a lot about pets?
Jin Er said, “Let’s stop talking in riddles. Look, she’s already confused… Blackie, why don’t you tell Snowy why you’re here? Then she would understand.”
“Okay…” Blackie had no other option. He lit a cigarette and took a deep puff. Blackie was indeed Jin Er’s university classmate.
His situation was similar to Jin Er’s. After leaving school and entering society, Blackie did well in the business world. He did not encounter any major setbacks and his career was booming.
Blackie himself had no great ambition. He had a unique understanding and pursuit of life. After entering his thirties and forties, he disregarded the opposition of everyone around him, and resolutely sold the company he founded. From that, he gained complete financial freedom and the freedom of life. After he faded out of the business world, he no longer remained in contact with his former business partners. He only remained in contact with a few close friends, and Jin Er was one of them.
After realizing his financial freedom, he didn’t buy a yacht or a sports car like other rich people. Instead, he began to exercise and systematically learn extreme sports such as diving, rock climbing, and rafting. After taking a year or two to master them, he did something that left others stunned: He went to survive alone in the wild.
Blackie said that surviving alone in the wild was not for show, nor was it suicide. People assumed that he had a lot of time on his hands so he wanted to challenge himself, but that was not the case. He did it because he wanted to experience life in the loneliness of the woods, and to stimulate his full potential by confronting nature. He wanted to experience life.
Few people understood him, because most people couldn’t reach his level of wealth and freedom. They were still working hard for a living.
There were also those that had achieved financial freedom, but even with the money they had, they still wanted to make more money––not only to ensure that their children didn’t have to worry about money, but so their grandchildren wouldn’t have to, either. Those were the people who couldn’t understand him.
Blackie was too lazy to explain himself. They were just fundamentally different.
Jin Er was his friend, his old classmate, and one of the few who understood him. Although Jin Er didn’t completely abandon the company he founded, he didn’t do anything and didn’t ask about the company’s daily operations.
Blackie was not looking for death by surviving in the wilderness alone. Every single time he went out into the wild, his route was carefully planned, and he had estimated the dangers and difficulties that he stood to encounter. He would also inform his old friends of his route and schedule, so if he didn’t return as planned, his old friends were to notify the police.
Aside from all that, Blackie was also very cautious about his choice of location, and he had been progressing from easy to difficult. He learned from and absorbed the experiences of his predecessors; he was not just blindly taking risks.
Generally speaking, he would enter the wilderness by foot, except for areas that were too vast and desolate, where he would then drive. But the basic principle was the same: He had to be alone.
As the difficulty level increased, he found himself facing an ever-increasing survival challenge: Anything could happen. He could run into a beast, a robber, or any other unexpected dangers.
He wanted to experience life instead of looking for death. On the contrary, he cherished his life, and in order to improve his safety factors, he was now forced to make a decision: give up on his principle of being alone and find a companion for himself, or stop at the current level and no longer challenge himself with the more sinister wilderness.
He was unwilling to accept either option.
Just as he was facing his dilemma, a senior in the field of survival gave him a suggestion––why not bring a dog along? A single sentence was all it took to solve his problems. He suddenly saw the silver lining. He could do that!
With a dog, not only could it dispel the loneliness of the journey, but it also didn’t defy the purpose of being an individual wilderness survivor.
More importantly, in the wild, a dog could play a very large auxiliary role. It could pick up the scent of beasts and strangers in advance, and it could also help him fight off the beasts and robbers. Who knew––it may even save him in the event of an earthquake, mudslide, or landslide! There was no need to worry about a well-trained dog betraying its owner.
To some extent, a dog was definitely the best partner for an individual wilderness survivor. They could complement each other’s strengths, and it was even safer than taking another individual along. To enter the wilderness with a person one was not familiar with was in itself a very big risk. Just like the old saying went, “You might know what a person looks like on the outside, but you can never know how he looks like inside.”
But that was where the problem was… What kind of dog was suitable for him to buy?
The senior who gave him the advice was also not able to answer the question. He could only advise Blackie to seek professional help.
Right that moment, Blackie recalled that there was an idiot with the surname Jin who always showed off his dog on his WeChat Moments, bragging about how he had tamed the dog well and that it would listen to his every command. He had claimed that it never went against him.
So, he drove a thousand miles to Binhai City to visit his old friend who he hadn’t seen in a long time just to ask him for suggestions on what kind of dog he should get.
However…
Blackie stared at Good-For-Nothing, who had just been beat up yet was still taunting Snowball. He could only let out a sigh. If he were to bring that dog along in the wilderness, his friends would have to collect their corpses.
